Åsa Pärson is a master weaver.

Designer Åsa Pärson is a master weaver, with a reductive approach to designing textiles - allowing only the essential elements to remain. Her designs reflect her preference for fixed structures and have a clean, simple, and timeless expression.

Swedish textile designer Åsa Pärson seeks to highlight

the patterns from the natural properties of the material.

She prefers fixed structures with clean, simple, timeless

styling augmented with a touch of coolness. Her work is

based on the notion of letting only the essentials remain.

Åsa Pärson is a graduate of the Swedish School of Textiles

in Borås and University College of Arts, Crafts and Design

in Stockholm. She has travelled extensively throughout Asia,

studying craft techniques in Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.

Her work has been exhibited in Sweden, England, and Japan.

She originally studied at the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås and at Konstfack - the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. However, Åsa Pärson has continued her practice and research on the tools and techniques of weaving all around the world. She studied jacquard weaving at the Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio in Florence, which keeps traditional weaving and production techniques alive, and has also studied dyeing techniques in Japan.

Åsa Pärson’s works played a part in the 2021 ‘Travel as a tool’ exhibition at Vandalorum in Sweden, which considers the importance of travel for Nordic designers. Furthermore, her books Fabricate (2017) and Yoroke (2021) have both been awarded the Swedish Art Book award.